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A licensee may have standing for a claim under Section 43(a) but not
Section 32, because that section says that it is a claim for the
registrant. Even under 43(a), my hot take is that the registrant may
still be a necessary party to the suit, so then you have to figure
out the joinder rules. You might be able to draft around joinder if
the parties agree that the registrant cannot also bring a lawsuit,
so the defendant isn't at a risk of a multiplicity of suits.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/13/2023 2:43 PM, Jessica R.
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client is the exclusive licensee of the right to market ABC
products in the U.S., but it has no written license
agreement.
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style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#1F3864">My
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third-party PTO application to register a mark whose use
would infringe the ABC mark.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#1F3864">I am
aware of the 11<sup>th</sup> Circuit’s decision
<i>Overhead Door Company of Kansas City v. OGD Equipment
Company, LLC</i>, Case No. 22-10985 (Fed. Cir. Aug. 22,
2023), that even if a written trademark license doesn’t
grant the right to sue for infringement of the trademark,
the licensee still may be able to do so if the license
doesn’t actually prohibit the licensee from doing so.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
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I just prepare a trademark license agreement that permits my
client to sue for infringement and take all other actions to
protect the ABC mark? Are there other cases I should be
looking at?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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